Ballot box being emptied in Oregon
Credit: Paula Bronstein/AP
‘Very unlikely…but still a possibility’
@Elon Workman:
"I am old enough to remember the 1960 USA Presidential election when John Kennedy beat Richard Nixon by about 100,000 votes. At that time it was alleged although not proved that in Illinois there were dead men voting in Cook County and in addition the voting machines in Mayor Daley’s Chicago somehow seemed to register many excess Kennedy votes — in fact there were more votes than actual voters in some precincts.
"There may well have been fraud this time around but it will be difficult to prove. Even in this country when we vote our electoral number is placed on the counterfoil before we are given the ballot paper so someone clever enough could were he or she so inclined find out how I voted and destroy my ballot paper. Very unlikely maybe but it is still a possibility."
‘It would take fraud on a mass scale’
@Dimitris Saravacos:
"To be realistic about it, it would take fraud on a mass scale to change the outcome.
"So, yes the recount would correct a few thousand but not tens of thousands.
"I admit, it has been strange that the vast majority of mail votes have gone to Biden rather than a more proportional amount but I guess it is one of the those things. Biden has won."
‘Wait for it to go to court’
@John Cooper:
"To challenge the election in any state (and each state is effectively independent in this) the Trump camp will have to evidence one or more state election rules have been broken in some significant way. As the court cases begin we will see the evidence — or not, in which case the suit will fail.
"Until that happens it’s just so much hot air on both sides. Get the popcorn ready and sit back and wait for it to go to court."
25 completely normal things you can still do this lockdown
We are a few days into the second lockdown, and our readers shared some ideas on how they will be spending their time.
‘Plan for the future’
@Brian Harrison:
"YouTube has many escorted walks around cities of the world. Check out Philadelphia. Interesting.
"These too may inspire planning for future holidays or coach tours?"
‘Reduced alcohol is not a bad thing’
@Charlie Thom:
"This lockdown is nowhere as threatening as the first. We know what we can do, and what not.
"We live close to woodlands which are open, and so are nearby National Trust gardens, other parks and garden centres. We can meet up with a friend for walks. Make a foursome with 2m distance behind each other which is quite normal.
"Pubs and restaurants are closed for a few weeks. I feel sorry for the landlords but sticking to a healthy diet and reduced alcohol is not a bad thing just before Christmas."
Michael Parkinson: ‘I was too drunk to realise the unhappiness I caused’
TV personality Michael Parkinson
Credit: Geoff Pugh/Geoff Pugh for the Telegraph
In our interview with Sir Michael Parkinson, he opened up about excessive drinking, the mistakes he made as a father and why he thinks TV has become a joke. Our readers discussed their favourite memories from his famous interviews.
‘He allowed his guests to talk’
@Pauline Culley:
"I always enjoyed his interviews. I thought his interview with Dr Bronowski was one of the most riveting I have ever seen. Parky allowed his guests to talk and many were wonderfully entertaining. The famous raconteurs such as Orson Welles and Peter Ustinov must have been very pleased that they were not competing with a ‘personality’ and were given free reign to entertain and inform. His Saturday night show was unmissable."
‘He learnt a lot about good writing’
@Nanda Menon:
"In his early days long before he became a TV Personality he was a reporter and was sent out to cover one of those interminable Arab Israel Wars. He was sending in reports from the Israeli side of the battles and these reports had to be scrutinised by the Israelis. Apart from his reports been sent back to have all the grammatical mistakes corrected they were ticked OK; he learnt a lot about writing good grammatical English during that war."
‘It was all about the guests’
@Martin Bormann:
"He wrote a piece in The Sunday Times about 40 years ago in which he said his intention on each show was to make sure the viewers could not remember a single thing Parkinson had said or done. It was all about the guests.
"This is because Parkinson was interested in his guests. He also assumed a modicum of intelligence on the part of his viewers and that they would not be frightened off by any conversation deemed to be "serious"."
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